It's
not about me.
The ego generally doesn't like to hear things
like this.
The ego is selfish by nature; that's what it is. It
is selfishness.
Spirit/Awareness is selfless by nature; that's
what it is. It is selflessness (love).
To cover up this truth,
the ego focuses on survival so it can stay selfish.
Competition
feeds greed (selfishness) and the fear of surviving (death).
Co-operation
feeds kindness (selflessness) and the helping of others to survive.
If
everybody lived for the sake of others, nobody would be left out, and
everybody would survive with ease.
It's not about me.
The
ego will justify its actions by whatever means it can, for the sake of
its own selfish survivial.
It re-arranges perceptions so that
neediness is disguised as "wants".
It blames outside phenomena
for its
own perceptions about that phenomena.
But if one is watching
the ego, and is aware of it, then one is not the ego.
One is
the silent non-judgemental Awareness that is aware of the ego, and its
thinkingness and
perceptions.
But how could consciousness ever see the errors
of the ego as long as it is identified with being the selfish ego?
It
couldn't. And so, an Enlightened teacher who has gone beyond the ego is
required to light the way.
Problems cannot be solved at the
same level of awareness that created them. - Albert Einstein
Problems
of the mind cannot be solved at the level of the mind.
It's
not about me, because the selfish ego isn't me.
If
one isn't the ego, what is there to fear? Surviving and death?
Certainly not.
Watch the mind. That Awareness is changeless,
timeless, formless, and infinitely eternal. It has no beginning or end.
That
which is timeless, is eternal.
That which is changeless,
cannot change.
That which is formless, cannot die.
For
many, it's a relief when the realization is made that they don't exist
for themselves.
All the struggling, all the suffering, all the
trying to get and gain things for oneself; it's all in vain.
It's
all out of the false identification with the selfish ego of change,
which can die.
The best way to find yourself is to lose
yourself in the service of others. - Mahatma Ghandi
It's not
about me, because the selfish ego isn't me.
Selflessness
(love) is the answer to all things.
Working for the benefit of
others, instead of for the money, is selflessness.
You don't
necessarily have to change what you do. You just have to change the
reason of why you do it.
Eating for optimal health so that one
can serve others exponentially, instead of eating for pleasure, is
selflessness.
When you change the reason why you do something,
what you do do, changes automatically.
Overcoming neediness,
cravings, and addictions is far simpler when one lives for the sake of
others rather than for oneself.
It's not about me.
Eat
for optimal health and vitality, and there will be enough energy for
oneself, and for others.
Work for the benefit of others,
instead of for the money, and the money will come automatically (karma).
Stop
worrying (creating karma), and there will be no worries (karma).
Live
a life of simplicity, and there will be few complications.
Live
a life free of neediness, and you will have no needs.
Choose
to be happy, whole, complete, and at peace, and you will always be
happy, whole, complete, and at peace.
Stop trying to make
yourself appear better than others (egoic pride), and others will think
you're the best.
Change yourself to the changeless, and you
change the world as a result.
Be the still, silent,
non-judgmental, non-labeling, unchanging Awareness, and you won't be
the selfish ego.
It's not about me, because the selfish ego
isn't me.
That which changes (ego) is relative. That
which is changeless (Awareness) is absolute.
Which level of
truth do you wish to be? Relative or absolute?
Even the
wantingness to be Awareness
is still a neediness of the selfish ego.
You are already the
Awareness that is aware of that wantingness.
Want nothing.
Need nothing. Think nothing.
Just be aware, always.
It's
not about me, because the selfish ego isn't me.
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